Scapa Flow
Patricia Meehan, Malcolm Brown
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Scapa Flow in the Orkneys would be the forbidding destination for many thousands of service personnel and civilians in both World Wars and the location of dramatic incidents such as the loss of the Hampshire with Kitchener on board in 1916, the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919 and the sinking of the Royal Oak at anchor by U-boat U-47 at the beginning of the Second World War. It was a vital start-point for both naval wars and these memories capture all the suffering, loss and glory experienced by those who were there.
Kundenbewertungen
military history, Vanguard, World War One, Lord Kitchener, Pentland Firth, German High Seas Fleet, explosion, anchorage, City of Ships, battleship, Water Sound, base, local history, Old Man of Hoy, Orkneyitis, soldiers, St Ninian, Ness Battery, Hampshire, Kirkwall, sailors, Royal Oak|U-47, Jellicoes, No World Outside the Ship, guarding the fleet, Orkney Islands, Yesnaby, Hands Coal Ship, Second World War, Jutland, Battle of Jutland, Orkney barrage, Scapa Flow, World War I, Royal Navy, WWI, 1916, 1919, Stromness, 1917, marines, Churchill Barrier, Scotland, Libertymen, First World War